Astronomy: Discovery of pulsed OH maser emission stimulated by a pulsar

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5731, 2005, Pages 106-110

  Weisberg, Joel M ^a,b,c   Johnston, Simon ^a,b   Koribalski, Bärbel ^a   Stanimirovic, Snezana ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CLOUDS; GAS EMISSIONS; PHOTONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

HYDROGEN CLOUDS; HYDROXYL (OH) CLOUDS; LINE EMISSION; PULSAR;

ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; MEASUREMENT; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 21644481171     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1112494     Document Type: Article

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